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Israel Supreme Court rejects hunger striker appeal
Israel’s Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal by two Palestinian prisoners who have been on hunger strike for 69 days in protest at being held without charge, their lawyer told AFP. “The Supreme Court refused both appeals,” Jamil Khatib said of the move by Bilal Diab, 27, and Thaer…
Israel’s Labour leader slams Netanyahu on Iran
JERUSALEM — The head of Israel’s Labour party on Saturday slammed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for presenting a potential nuclear Iran as the Jewish state’s greatest threat. “It is a mistake to make the Iranian threat into Israel’s central problem,” Shelly Yacimovitch said in a televised interview with privately-owned Channel…
Bowing to U.S. pressure, Spain and Malaysia dropped from copyright blacklist
After bowing to pressure from the U.S., Spain and Malaysia have been dropped from a high-profile copyright violations watchlist that officials use to pressure countries into changing their laws to align with U.S. intellectual property safeguards. And from the looks of 2012′s list, Canada and Israel are up next. “This…
Ex-Israeli spy boss attacks Netanyahu and Barak over Iran
PM and defense chief not fit to lead Israel and are misleading the public over Iran, warns former Shin Bet boss Yuval Diskin Israel’s former security chief has censured the country’s “messianic” political leadership for talking up the prospects of a military stike on Iran’s nuclear programme. In unusually candid…
Panetta hopes Israeli general ‘correct’ on Iran
SANTIAGO — US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said Thursday he hopes that statements from Israel’s military chief describing Iran’s leadership as rational were “correct.” Israeli Lieutenant General Benny Gantz told the Haaretz newspaper on Wednesday that the Iranian leadership “is composed of very rational people,” and that while Tehran…
Israel military chief: Iran not pursuing nuclear weapon
JERUSALEM — Israel’s military chief toned down the rhetoric over Iran’s nuclear programme on Wednesday, describing the Iranian leadership as “very rational” and unlikely to take the decision to build a bomb. Speaking to the left-leaning Haaretz newspaper, Lieutenant General Benny Gantz said Iran was systematically approaching the point at…
Egypt cancels deal to supply natural gas to Israel
By Mona Salem CAIRO — Egypt has scrapped a 2005 gas export deal with Israel, which relies on Egyptian natural gas for 40 percent of its supplies to produce electricity, the chairman of a government holding firm said on Sunday. The accord was “annulled on Thursday with the East Mediterranean…
Huge detention center to be Israel’s latest weapon in migration battle
A vast detention complex is rising from the sandy grounds of Ktzi’ot prison in the Negev desert, close to Israel’s border with Egypt, which will become the world’s largest holding facility for asylum seekers and migrants. When it is completed, at an initial cost of £58m to the Israeli government,…
Israel bans ‘flytilla’ activists but hundreds left in Europe
BEN GURION AIRPORT, Israel — Israel on Sunday barred 40 pro-Palestinian activists who had flown in for a “Welcome to Palestine” campaign as hundreds more would-be protesters were stranded at airports across Europe. As hundreds of police deployed at Israel’s main international airport in a bid to stop activists from…
Iran’s nuclear program: Legal debate stirs over basis for U.S. or Israeli attack
As US and Israeli officials weigh up prospect of military strike on Iran, critics say any attack would go against international law Amid the sabre-rattling and bluster over Iran, a furious if little-noticed debate is boiling over the legal basis for a US or Israeli attack on Tehran’s nuclear programme.…
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